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Summary:

Benedict Bridgerton has renamed himself to ‘airbnb’

airbnb has renamed Violet Bridgerton to ‘mumsy <3’

airbnb has renamed Hyacinth Bridgerton to ‘hiya cindy’

airbnb has renamed Daphne Bridgerton to ‘scratchy knees’

airbnb has renamed ello mate to ‘ebay’

airbnb has renamed Gregory Bridgerton to ‘greggsbakeoff’

airbnb has renamed Anthony Bridgerton to ‘thorny breath’

airbnb has renamed Colin Bridgerton to ‘cumanizer’

airbnb has renamed Francessca Bridgerton to ‘fortepiano’

 

hiya cindy: why hiya cindy?

ebay: lmao ebay

airbnb: u couldnt say hyacinth when you were younger, so, you said “hiya cindy” and everyone called you cindy for a while until u finally learned your own name

ebay: OH YEAH

ebay: oh that was such fun

ebay: i miss cindy

hiya cindy: hey!

 

Or the Bridgertons, if they were in the modern world. And had a family group chat.

Notes:

Hyacinth and Gregory are both single, and also minors.

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

Chapter 1: the brilliant idea

Chapter Text

07/01/2026, 03:40 pm

ello mate - benedickt



ello mate: why do u insist on vetoing my ideaaa

 

benedickt: bcs its stupid, ello 

 

ello mate: tis not! I aksed franny 

 

ello mate: she seems to think im quite brilliant

 

benedickt: fran seems to think anything is “quite brilliant” if shes distracted by her piano

 

ello mate: 

 

ello mate: daph agrees

 

benedickt: she hardly hears anything correctly nowadays with simons dick constantly shoved up her bum

 

ello mate: why must u be so vulgar?

 

benedickt: u are hardly the person to be lecturing me on my speech, eloise

 

ello mate: also

 

ello mate: y do you refuse to double text?

 

benedickt: why do u refuse to read full sentences? i remember you to b quite fond of reading

 

ello mate: yh, when theyre interesting

 

ello mate: i hardly find ur dry responses entertaining

 

benedickt: and yet u reply



07/01/2026, 03:47 pm

ello mate - benedickt



benedickt: petty bastard



09/01/2026, 02:57 am

 

Eloise Bridgerton has made a group chat!

 

Eloise Bridgerton has added eight (8) people!

 

Eloise had added five (5) other people!

 

Eloise Bridgerton had renamed the chat!

 

Eloise Bridgerton has renamed herself as ‘ello mate’



ello mate: my idea is amazing

 

ello mate: fuck you, beneDICKt



09/01/2026, 07:42 am

fuck you, beneDICKt



Benedict Bridgerton: oh for fucks, eloise.



09/01/2026, 08:24 am

fuck you, beneDICKt



Violet Bridgerton: What is the matter now?

 

Violet Briderton: Eloise, why are you mad at Benedict?

 

ello mate: tis not benedict i am mad at

 

ello mate: tis beneDICKt, mother

 

Francessca Bridgerton: how do i mute this?

 

Francessca Bridgerton: i cannot hear anything iver this stupid phones incessant chirping

 

ello mate: just lower your notif volume

 

ello mate: or better yet, putyour phone on dnd

 

Francessca Bridgerton: oh yh

 

Francessca Bridgerton: thx, elle

 

ello mate: np

 

John Stirling: why am i… here

 

ello mate: ur in the family, no?

 

John Stirling: fran nd i broke up like three years ago, elle

 

ello mate: oh yeahhhhh

 

ello mate: wtv, ur still our cousin in law

 

John Stirling: chaela and fran have only been dating for two weeks

 

ello mate: well

 

ello mate: wtv, john, js be grateful ur here

 

John Stirling: i dont think i want to be

 

ello mate: well thats too fuckin bad, isnt it?



ello mate has renamed John Stirling to ‘unmotto’



unmotto: 

 

unmotto: why?

 

ello mate: bcs our fmailies motto is “family above all else” 

 

ello mate: and ur not technically family

 

unmotto: ah, i see



09/01/2026, 08:36 am

fuck you, beneDICKt



Violet Bridgerton: You haven’t answered my question, Eloise

 

Violet Bridgerton: John, you are still considered family in my house

 

unmotto: ty, mrs bridgerton

 

Violet Bridgerton: Violet

 

ello mate: violet

 

ello mate: seriously, mama

 

ello mate: when are u gonna let that go?

 

ello mate: the man is never calling u violet

 

Violet Bridgerton: One day, Eloise

 

Violet Bridgerton: I also have yet to hear why you are angry with Benedict 

 

ello mate: the point is not why i am mad at benedickt 

 

ello mate: the point is why benedickt refuses to agree 

 

ello mate: that my idea is amazing!

 

ello mate: @Benedict Bridgerton 

 

Daphne Bridgerton: what idea?

 

ello mate: fml

 

ello mate: i lichrally said it to ur face at lunch yesterday

 

ello mate: albeit simons face as well 

 

ello mate: since you were connected at the lips 

 

ello mate: and i dont want to know where else

 

Daphne Bridgerton: shut up! mum is here

 

Violet Bridgerton: This is no information I haven’t heard, Daphne



Daphne Bridgerton has left this chat!

 

ello mate has added one (1) other person!



Daphne Bridgerton: fml

 

ello mate: someone certainly is



09/01/2026, 08:53 am

fuck you, beneDICKt



Benedict Bridgerton: WHAT, ELOISE, WHAT

 

ello mate: fran agrees this is a brilliant idea

 

Benedict Bridgerton: frans still in the music room, i can hear her playing right now, and i know she doesnt like to play with hre phone on

 

ello mate: shut up, honestly

 

ello mate: why must you know everything abt everyone

 

Benedict Bridgerton: sophie tells me

 

ello mate: sophie? u mean sophie baek?

 

ello mate: one of the housekeepers?

 

ello mate: isnt she the one who cleans the weasels room?

 

Benedict Bridgerton: yes, ello, that sophie baek

 

Hyacinth Bridgerton: i am no weasel!

 

ello mate: no but u r a busybody

 

Benedict Bridgerton: a b c d e f g

 

ello mate: also

 

ello mate: when did u get here?

 

ello mate: have u been lurking this entire time?

 

ello mate: fuck off, beneDICKt

 

Hyacinth Bridgerton: well

 

Hyacinth Bridgerton: i was afraid if i said anything i would be bullied

 

ello mate: why would we bully you?

 

ello mate: no one would waste their breath insulting u

 

Violet Bridgerton: Eloise, be nice, your sister has done nothing wrong



Benedict Bridgerton has renamed himself to ‘airbnb’

 

airbnb has renamed Violet Briderton to ‘mumsy <3’

 

airbnb has renamed Hyacinth Bridergton to ‘hiya cindy’ 

 

airbnb has renamed Daphne Bridgerton to ‘scratchy knees’

 

airbnb has renamed ello mate to ‘ebay’

 

airbnb has renamed Gregory Bridgerton to ‘greggsbakeoff’

 

airbnb has renamed Anthony Bridgerton to ‘thorny breath’

 

airbnb has renamed Colin Bridgerton to ‘cumanizer’

 

airbnb has renamed Francessca Bridgerton to ‘fortepiano’



hiya cindy: why hiya cindy?

 

ebay: lmao ebay

 

airbnb: u couldnt say hyacinth when you were younger, so, you said “hiya cindy” and everyone called you cindy for a while until u finally learned your own name

 

ebay: OH YEAH

 

ebay: oh that was such fun

 

ebay: i miss cindy

 

hiya cindy: hey!

 

mumsy <3: Oh, she was so cute, she would just repeat “hiya cindy” all day, and people thought her name was Cindy!

 

airbnb: u type like such a mum

 

hiya cindy: i dont remember this bit of history

 

ebay: good, now we can reminisce about u and u wont get it

 

ebay: amazing!!

 

mumsy <3: Well, I would hope so, considering ive been one for at least 20+ years



09/01/2026, 10:02 am

fuck you, beneDICKt



thorny breath: what is this?

 

thorny breath: why is this my name?

 

thorny breath: wtf?



09/01/2026, 10:24 am

fuck you, beneDICKt



Kathani Sharma: oh my, you were not kidding

 

ebay: kate! my second favorite of my brothers girlfriends!

 

Kathani Sharma: i’m assuming the first is penelope?

 

ebay: yes, unfortunately she sits on a very high throne that is hard to step off of

 

Kathani Sharma: well, i hope she does not get lonely up there

 

ebay: off topic, but cna i change ur name?

 

ebay: its just a bit formal is all

 

Kathani Sharma: go ahead, i too think its a little direct

 

ebay: thx!



ebay has renamed Kathani Sharma to ‘tahani’



tahani: ah, the good place?

 

ebay: YESS

 

ebay: its the greatest show of all timeee

 

ebay: have you watched?

 

tahani: i’m a bit ashamed to admit i watched the entire thing in one sitting

 

ebay: honestly the only way to watch a show

 

thorny breath: elle, stop bothering kate and go do something else

 

tahani: she is not bothering me, anthony

 

tahani: we are simply bonding over our love for the good place

 

ebay: such a shame you called it a “bright piece of crap that isnt worth my time” after watching the first minute of the first episode

 

thorny breath: tis predictable and repetitive, elle

 

ebay: u would not think so if you had watched it

 

tahani: anthony! it is so complex, and mindblowing, why do you dislike it?

 

ebay: he does not dislike it, he simply has not witnessed its greatness yet

 

tahani: then i shall put it upon myself to make him watch

 

ebay: YESSS PLEASE

 

ebay: he needs to be cultured!!

 

thorny breath: ihml

 

tahani: you wont once you watch the good place

 

thorny breath: ill believe it when i see it, love



10/01/2026, 06:34 am

fuck you, beneDICKt



fortepiano: why do you refuse to associate me with anything else other than my piano, benny?

 

airbnb: idk, why do u insist on calling me benny?

 

fortepiano: benedict is too long

 

airbnb: its lichrally one syllable off from benny, and three ketters from benny

 

fortepiano: wtv i can do what i want

 

airbnb: and u always do



10/01/2026, 11:08 am

fuck you, beneDICKt



ebay: why on earth did you ppl wake up at such an hour?

 

ebay: i just woke up!

airbnb: yh cuz u were up all night messaging someone

 

ebay: how tf do u know that???

 

ebay: nvm its sophie, isnt it?

 

airbnb: sophie was working late last night

 

ebay: yep



10/01/2026, 11:18 am

fuck you, beneDICKt



greggsbakeoff: i come home from nicks house

 

greggsbakeoff: and tgis is whats transpiring on my phone??

 

hiya cindy: have u not checked ur phone?

 

greggsbakeoff: no cuz i was busy actually socializing, weasel

 

hiya cindy: i am not a weasel!!!



10/01/2026, 11:27 am

fuck you, beneDICKt



Penelope Featherington: do i want to know what this is..?

 

ebay: no

 

Penelope Featherington: great, glad we established that

 

ebay: me as well



10/01/2026, 11:31 am

fuck you, beneDICKt



cuminizer: i should really open my phone more

 

cuminizer: wtf is ny name

 

greggsbakeoff: perhaps u shouldnt

 

ebay: you absokutly should!!! 

 

ebay: this is the best thing to have ever happened in your lives!!

 

cuminizer: tis not

 

ebay: tis so



10/01/2026, 11:34 am

fuck you, beneDICKt



greggsbakeoff: where has hyacinth gone?

 

greggsbakeoff: nicky nd i ave been waiting for her

 

ebay: where? and for whqt?

 

10/01/2026, 11:37 am

fuck you, beneDICKt

 

ebay: wow. glad to jnow im loved by this family

Notes:

Thanks for reading!